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The Angels and city of Anaheim have not progressed toward a new stadium lease after breaking off talks in September. "We are nowhere," owner Arte Moreno said Friday, as the Angels held their first spring-training workout. "We've had zero conversations with them since a long time before September, and we have no planned conversations." Moreno addressed a variety of topics during a 45-minute interview, including the team's ability to add an impact player before the July 31 trade deadline, its quiet — and failed — pursuit of free-agent pitcher James Shields, and enigmatic and oft-injured left fielder Josh Hamilton. The Angels have a four-year...

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The Angels and city of Anaheim have not progressed toward a new stadium lease after breaking off talks in September.
"We are nowhere," owner Arte Moreno said Friday, as the Angels held their first spring-training workout. "We've had zero...

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Sorry to mess with your WPA+ and Rtot ratings, and whatever else you hold dear to your little sabermetric hearts this week, but the Padres are now the team to reckon with in the National League West.
That’s right, the hard-to-watch Padres, the almost...

Are they being sneaky little devils? Lying hidden in the woods, ready to pounce unexpectedly? Just when everyone has exhaled and got all relaxed, set to SHOCK THE WORLD!
OK, possibly a slight exaggeration. It’s not like the Dodgers haven’t been very busy...

Hmmm, are things getting interesting enough for the Dodgers to take a serious run at right-hander James Shields?
Certainly looks like it. In which case, they absolutely should.
Shields never appealed to me as the great ace he was being marketed as early...

The last general manager to win a World Series in Southern California was Bill Stoneman, the architect of the 2002 Angels.
Stoneman was a Plan A guy. When he talked to another general manager, Stoneman had a pretty firm idea of what he wanted to do. If...

Look at all those moving pieces. Excuse me, those reportedly moving pieces. Are you keeping up?
Staying on top of this doesn’t figure to be easy, because despite Wednesday’s apparent flurry of Dodgers’ activity at the winter meetings, it’s hard to...

In Ned Colletti's first winter as Dodgers general manager, he made three trades, a perfectly reasonable volume. In Andrew Friedman's first winter in charge, he dominated the winter meetings by making four trades within 24 hours.
There was the midnight...

Let’s hang on, to what we’ve got …
Anyway, if he's viewed as some really, really bright prospect you should hang onto him. If his name is Corey Seager, Joc Pederson or Julio Urias.
The Dodgers were making deals all over the Gaslamp Quarter on...

Jon Lester, enjoy the Windy City. Cole Hamels, it would have been sweet. Max Scherzer, rejoice in those coming riches. James Shields, guess we never really thought it was going to happen.
The superstar pitcher who was going to be added to give the...

The Dodgers could afford Max Scherzer or James Shields. No one is claiming otherwise.
They will pay $88 million in salary next season to six starting pitchers — one of whom, Dan Haren, will pitch for another team. They will pay $30 million to Clayton...

Jerry Dipoto has heard the criticism of the Angels, that they're getting old, that they're suffocating under the weight of their massive, long-term contracts, that they better win a championship soon, or else.
"That's been the public commentary, the...

Baseball's annual rumor fest is upon us. The winter meetings start Monday in San Diego, and what traditionally deteriorates into a week of overblown analysis of overblown hype might actually amount to something big.
One reason: teams looking for...

To many Angels fans, General Manager Jerry Dipoto is like the boy who cried wolf. Whatever Dipoto says, especially this time of year, they tend to believe the opposite.
Asked about free-agent Albert Pujols in November of 2011, Dipoto said the slugger was...

As the first day of baseball's winter meetings came to a close Monday night, Jon Lester was believed to be close to deciding where he'll pitch next season. At first glance, the Dodgers looked like one of his most logical destinations.
The Dodgers are...

The Boston Red Sox got Hanley Ramirez, and Pablo Sandoval too.
The Dodgers got Juan Nicasio. He is a pitcher, given away by the Colorado Rockies, the team most desperate for pitching in all of baseball.
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Befitting the teams that got here, the 2014 World Series has been a wild one to watch.
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In baseball, the season of giving is upon us yet again.
This is the season of free agency, the time of year when teams bestow riches upon the finest players in all the land.
This used to be the season of the Angels and Dodgers. To Albert Pujols, from...